Background In vitro culturing and retransplantion of vitrified- warmed ovarian tissue are two ways to restore fertility after radiation or chemotherapy.This study aimed to evaluate the incidence of apoptosis in vitrified human ovarian tissue after warming, long term culturing and xenotransplantation by morphological analyses and apoptosis genes expression evaluation. MaterialsAndMethods We obta...

To address the public concerns provoked by the first incidence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Japan, the BSE screening tests in Japan are evaluated in use of modeling analysis in evidence-based diagnosis. Under the assumptions based on epidemiological statistics such as the annual number of screened cattle with 1,227,385, the annual incidence of BSE infection with four, and the se...

background pertussis is a highly communicable, vaccine-preventable respiratory disease; which may circulate even in populations with high vaccination coverage. although frequent, but it is often underestimated as a cause of prolonged cough illness in both children and adults. without boosting, the protection of the childhood vaccination would be minimal after 10 years. the need for adult booste...

We report on the experimental and theoretical investigation of polarization conversion of linearly polarized Gaussian beam propagating in perpendicularly cut homogeneous uniaxial crystals. We derive analytical expressions, in good agreement with experimental data, for power transfer between components at normal incidence accompanied by the generation of a topological quadrupole. We extend the r...

The incidence of headaches during the first year on oral cotraceptives corrleates closely with the incidence of well-developed arterioles in endometrial biopsy specimens. This relationship appears to depend on the ratio between progestogenic and oestrogenic components of the pill as well as the particular steroids. Therefore endometrial biopsies are useful for assessing the vascular response to...

The objective of this study is to investigate the potential of TerraSAR-X (X-band) in monitoring sugarcane growth on Reunion Island (located in the Indian Ocean). Multi-temporal TerraSAR data acquired at various incidence angles (17°, 31°, 37°, 47°, 58°) and polarizations (HH, HV, VV) were analyzed in order to study the behaviour of SAR (synthetic aperture radar) signal as a function of sugarca...

OBJECTIVE Pulmonary oedema is recognised as a severe side effect of ritodrine hydrochloride. Recently, the number of twin pregnancies has been increasing. Few studies have reported the association between total dose of ritodrine hydrochloride prior to delivery and pulmonary oedema in twin pregnancy. We aimed to examine this association and determine the optimal cut-off threshold of total ritodr...